Imagine walking up to a cashier at a supermarket and instead of a credit card or your phone you just hold your bare hand up to the card reader and the payment goes through. Would cause quite a reaction, right? Well, that’s exactly what life is like for Patrick Paumen who has a contactless payment microchip injected under the skin of his hand. The body embedded category refers to a futuristic scenario in which human bodies will be perfectly merged with external electronic devices while maintaining a real-time remote connection. While the Internet of Things refers to the network of physical objects embedded with sensors like your smart TV, your smart fridge, and maybe even your vacuum cleaner, the IoB or Internet of bodies is the term for the network of devices injected or implanted in the human body… (READ MORE)

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